{"id":417160,"date":"2025-12-12T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=417160"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:06:31","slug":"cop-30-far-worse-than-cop-28-kalmus-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=417160","title":{"rendered":"COP 30: Far Worse than COP 28 (Kalmus ignored)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"417163\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=417163\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0AQOU-aZUGVJqzJWaFocsIFyDMIluUITwBQgmaT8yWXP1OqSoyp8aAb1GpKI02kE2SOUBuRenECaCA9aTLF-A3aHSJw1tddNWpu1QqZdZ2O48Ldgmy1w-kSiFMr0kIfgtZEElTMrH_yZYGQriBOLSdu2xAkAsxQ-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1280\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0AQOU-aZUGVJqzJWaFocsIFyDMIluUITwBQgmaT8yWXP1OqSoyp8aAb1GpKI02kE2SOUBuRenECaCA9aTLF-A3aHSJw1tddNWpu1QqZdZ2O48Ldgmy1w-kSiFMr0kIfgtZEElTMrH_yZYGQriBOLSdu2xAkAsxQ-1.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/cop-28-uae\/cop-28-30kalmus\/\">Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhere do we go from here? We need to start by agreeing that COP28,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2021-11-15\/cop26-climate-summit-fossil-fuels\">like other COPs<\/a>, was a complete failure\u2026. We\u2019ve been doing this for 30 years now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe problem is power\u2026. extractive colonialist capitalism.\u201d (Peter Kalmus, 2023)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years ago, climate scientist and uber-alarmist&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/peterkalmus.net\/\">Peter Kalmus<\/a>&nbsp;lashed out at the outcome of the United Nations\u2019 annual climate conference.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/cop-out-wrapping-pathetic-climate-summit-that-should-fool-nobody-opinion-1853526\">COP Out: Wrapping Up a Useless Climate Summit That Should Fool Nobody<\/a>\u201d is a suitable view for how little was accomplished then\u2013and how the climate movement has spiraled backward in the face of energy and political realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the growing disparity between means and ends, and just a lot of political waste to show for it,&nbsp;<em>is it time to dissolve the UN IPCC processes<\/em>? Time for the climate alarmists to admit that the cure is worse for social justice, the living space, and freedom than the \u201cproblem\u201d of global greening from carbon dioxide (CO2) enrichment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think of the downsides spawned by climate activism: industrial wind and solar blight; hydrogen and biomass substitution; carbon capture and offsets (\u2018carbon management\u2019); and cap-and-trade \u2018alligator shoes\u2019 politics (James Hansen). Think about the waste, greed, and gaming by the Climate Industrial Complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is Kalmus 2023 post-COP28:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COP28, the climate summit that ended last week, delivered nonbinding words. What humanity and the Earth need is determined, coordinated action to end fossil fuels, and the useless words from COP28 will only serve to delay that action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s review what just happened. Some wealthy humans flew on private jets to the United Arab Emirates, a petrostate, for a two-week meeting. Many of these humans work for the fossil fuel industry. The petrostate leveraged its host status for dirty side deals to expand fossil fuels. There was a session on sustainable megayacht ownership. The presiding official was a fossil fuel CEO, Sultan al-Jaber, who, days earlier, had said some&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cop28-climate-conference-president-sultan-al-jaber-fossil-fuels\/\">anti-science, denialist garbage-words<\/a>. Two days after the meeting ended, he promised that his oil corporation will continue investing in oil and expanding fossil fuels. OPEC, in a joint statement with the Gas Exporting Countries Forum,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/saudi-energy-minister-agreement-with-cop28-presidency-final-deal-2023-12-13\/\">congratulated<\/a>&nbsp;the UAE on the \u201cpositive outcome\u201d for the fossil fuel industry. Nice \u201cclimate summit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are all in grave danger from global heating, which appears to be accelerating, is irreversible, and is driving all the flooding and heat and fires. It\u2019s caused almost entirely by the fossil fuel industry, with industrial animal agriculture in second place. If we allow these industries to continue, Earth will get hotter and hotter; and more and more systems (food, water, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, geopolitics) will break all over the world. The longer these industries exist, the more we will lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wealthy fossil-fuel-industry-influenced humans at COP28 produced 21 pages called the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/documents\/636608\">global stocktake<\/a>.\u201d The stocktake mentions \u201cfossil fuels\u201d once, on page 4. People who wish to argue that COP28 wasn\u2019t a complete failure have been calling this \u201chistoric.\u201d And technically it is, because fossil fuels have never been mentioned in a COP decision text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, this is shameful. Thirty years? To simply&nbsp;<em>mention<\/em>&nbsp;the dead-obvious cause of this global heating nightmare? Specifically, the stocktake \u201ccalls on\u201d nations to contribute to \u201ctransitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner.\u201d These words are nonbinding, stop short of calling for phasing out fossil fuels, and limit the transition to \u201cenergy systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m surprised the rich folks mentioned \u201cequitable\u201d; perhaps they are beginning to feel pressure from the climate movement. Indeed, any fossil fuel phase out will need to be equitable\u2014even apart from the obvious moral imperative\u2014or its policies and treaties will unduly burden non-rich people and nations, become massively unpopular, and fail (this dynamic was colorfully demonstrated by the Yellow Vests movement in France in 2018). However, the rich seem unlikely to voluntarily relinquish their wealth. If they don\u2019t, the transition will take a revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stocktake also included words encouraging expansion of \u201ctransitional fuels,\u201d which means fossil gas (what the industry calls \u201cnatural gas\u201d); words cheerleading acceleration of carbon capture and storage, which is a fossil fuel industry techno-fantasy that will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClimateHuman\/status\/1435820395907588104\">never happen at scale<\/a>; and words calling for \u201cphase-down of&nbsp;<em>unabated<\/em>&nbsp;coal power,\u201d which means phase-down of coal power with carbon capture (<em>abated<\/em>&nbsp;coal power) isn\u2019t on the table. The use of&nbsp;<em>unabated<\/em>&nbsp;in this context makes it clear that, in the worldview of COP28 and the fossil fuel industry, \u201ccarbon capture\u201d are merely words that mean \u201cwe can keep burning fossil fuels.\u201d The stocktake also fails to mention industrial animal agriculture at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other thing people who want to argue it wasn\u2019t a complete failure mention are loss and damage pledges from rich nations. However, these pledges amount to $700 million. This may sound like a lot of money, but it\u2019s estimated to be just&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/dec\/06\/700m-pledged-to-loss-and-damage-fund-cop28-covers-less-than-02-percent-needed\">0.2 percent of what\u2019s needed<\/a>&nbsp;(and I would guess this is still a gross underestimate). The United States pledged less than $20 million, which is an insultingly small amount\u2014roughly the budget of an average high school, and a tiny fraction of a single fossil fuel CEO\u2019s annual salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kalmus continues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Words like these\u2014weaselly, unbinding, unquantitative, insincere\u2014serve to distract society from ending fossil fuels. For 30 years, fossil-fuel-industry-influenced rich people have distracted everyone so effectively that they didn\u2019t even need to bother mentioning fossil fuels. And fossil-fueled business as usual has continued and expanded exponentially all the while. As a society, we so far seem incapable of imagining it ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem is power. Over the last few hundred years of extractive colonialist capitalism, rich people (and their corporations, mechanisms of more-than-human perpetuation and accumulation) have enclosed capital, and that capital has accrued more capital, and that exponentially growing capital purchases laws and judges and media and disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And all this influence has determined how we can collectively imagine, and how we collectively imagine has determined the direction we take as a society. The rich benefit from this status quo, at least until everything collapses (and insulated, they are unable to see that they are driving the system toward collapse). Therefore, they strongly resist changing it. This resistance to change is the hallmark of the COP process, and we saw it in spectacular fashion last week at COP28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kalmus ends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where do we go from here? We need to start by agreeing that COP28,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2021-11-15\/cop26-climate-summit-fossil-fuels\">like other COPs<\/a>, was a complete failure. Claiming that it was somehow not a failure, clinging to bits of false hope, generates a powerful illusion that business as usual can continue. We\u2019ve been doing this for 30 years now. The possibility of keeping heating to under 1.5 degrees C has been squandered. If we cling to false hope that it\u2019s working, we will keep doing it, year after year, making no progress. This is what the fossil fuel industry wants; this is how we lose a planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We then need to establish an international summit and fossil fuel treaty system that isn\u2019t broken under the weight of fossil fuel industry corruption. To do this, we need to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/climate-summit-sick-joke-you-should-angry-afraid-opinion-1848719\">ban the fossil fuel industry from the negotiations<\/a>, and doing this will require a stronger climate movement. Every single one of us can work, in our own way, to make the movement stronger. Be a climate activist: join with other climate activists\u2014we\u2019re not hard to find\u2014and take risks. 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